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  • 2018-10-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Canadians Face a Major Donut Shortage After the First Day of Cannabis Legalization? (en)
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  • As Canada officially legalized the recreational use of marijuana, experts speculated about how the new law would impact the country. Would it generate billions of dollars in sales and tax revenues? Would it reduce crime? Would it increase drug use? Or would it give the entire country an unquenchable case of the munchies? On 18 October 2018, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) website addressed the last question by publishing an article reporting that the legalization of marijuana in Canada had produced an unintended consequence -- a donut shortage: Of course, this report was not a genuine news story. World News Daily Report is an entertainment web site with a long history of publishing junk news. The site carries a disclaimer stating that that all of its content is fictional. Canada did not face a donut shortage due to increased cases of the munchies, but this bit of fiction was vaguely reminiscent of a news story reported by CNN in which a 9-year-old girl set up shop outside of a dispensary to sell Girl Scout cookies to cannabis-loving Canadians and sold out of her supply within the hour: World News Daily Report wasn't the only entertainment web site to publish a bit of cannabis comedy after Canada legalized marijuana. The entertainment web site The Daily Bonnet (satirically) reported that the country was able to pay off the national debt within 24 hours of legalizing the sale of pot. (en)
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